Base of Operations: Global Security,
INC, within a mesa somewhere in the American desert

First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel:
Punisher: Intruder (1989)

Powers/Abilities: Whittaker is highly
skilled in various forms of hand-to-hand combat, as well as being
an extremely talented fighter pilot.

He led a paramilitary
organization outfitted with various forms of conventional
artillery and aircraft, specializing in assassination.

Whittaker was more than
willing to sell drugs appropriated from his victims in order to
help finance his operations, a fact which he was forced to keep
concealed from his allies in the Korean CIA. In addition, it
bothered him not in the least to pursue the assassination of the
first major African-American candidate for attorney general. He
saw himself as a patriot first and had no ties to any color.

History: (Marvel
Graphic Novel: Punisher: Intruder (fb) - BTS) - Whittaker served
in the Navy after graduating from the Top Gun school in Miramar,
and he was based aboard the USS Coral Sea. He was the Korean
heavy weight full-contact champion two years running. The
following year he was recruited by CIA, and he maintained close
contact with the Koreans ever since. Whittaker appropriated $200
million from the CIA under Naval Weapons Research, and then left
to head the private think tank Global Security, INC, with ties to
the Korean CIA. In this position, Whittaker functioned as an
opponent of Communism, specializing in assassination.

(Marvel Graphic Novel: Punisher: Intruder) -
Whittaker's organization was commissioned by agents of Korean
Colonel Kim to take out the drug dealers Flaco + Juanita
Moldinaro, who were living in Vaporville, Illinois, under the
aliases Mr. + Mrs. Lorenzo DiPatt. However, despite having the
location provided by Kim's agents, due to some clerical mix-up,
Whittaker's troops instead assaulted the house next door. This
attack killed the innocent Greg and Mrs. Pulowski, unwittingly
leaving behind their seven year old daughter, Maggie. The
Punisher, who was preparing to take out the Moldinaro's himself,
witnessed the attacks and rushed into the Pulowski house and
rushed off with Maggie to keep her protected from further assault.
The Moldinaro's, however, escaped into the night.
Whittaker's men discovered tCastle's
surveillance equipment, indicating that an unknown party had
observed the incident and may have absconded with the Pulowski
girl.

Whittaker met with Colonel
Kim to discuss the recent incident, and easily battered Kim
unconscious when he challenged him in combat. He then met with
Reverend Teck-Yo to discuss the matter, and proved his prowess by
having one of his Air Force contacts arrange an accidental plane
crash into the Romida O'Hare in Chicago, killing Senator Orrin
Kelsey, a likely choice for the office of attorney general, whom
they saw as having communist tendencies. At the same time, a drug
shipment, taken from the Moldinaro's house, arrived at the Global
Security, INC headquarters, and Whittaker had his right hand man,
Swain, keep it concealed from his Korean allies. He next prepared
to assassinate Mr. Hook, another candidate for attorney general
with even stronger communist ties.

Castle infiltrated Global
Security, INC, but was captured by Whittaker's men, who had
prepared for the potential arrival of the man who had gotten
involved with the Pulowski assassination. Knowing that the
Punisher may be aware of his cocaine deals, Whittaker beat the
bound Castle into unconsciousness. He sent Teck-Yo's torturer, Mr.
Soon, to interrogate the Punisher to learn his identity, while at
the same time telling Swain to kill Soon if the Punisher revealed
the cocaine deals. Castle did reveal the coke deals, but then
killed Soon himself.

Castle had planted several
bombs throughout the facility and when they went off, Whittaker
took off in one of his jets. Castle, who had been preparing on
one of Microchip's Flight-Simulators, fought his way to a jet and
went after him. Whittaker tried to recruit Castle into his
organization over the radio, but then engaged him in an airfight
after Castle refused. However, Castle managed to draw Whittaker
in, allow him to lock onto his jet, then slammed on the "brakes",
causing Whittaker to shoot past him, and blew him up with a
targeting missile.

Comments: Created by Mike Baron and Bill
Reinhold.

Just like the Punisher, reference to activity
in the 1970s for Whittaker is to be considered topical. The date
of 1974 (his first year as boxing champion) shown simply refers
to 15 years prior to this story.

Mike Baron in Punisher Anniversary Magazine notes that
part of the inspiration for this story was a Dick
Tracy strip featuring a gang of "highly evolved
thieves" with a hideout on top of a chimney butte in
the desert of Utah. The redoubtable policeman had to
parachute in. I'll ask Max Allan Collins if he recalls
which story this was. --Per Degaton

I believe that TRACY story was from the early '60s and
was about a gang called the 52's. They wore full face
black masks and were designated by playing cards, if
memory serves.--Max Allan Collins

CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:

Whittaker, Abe - copper miner, led
effort to attempt to threaten Alicia Twain off of her
property, inadvertently killed her when she struck him,
he and all other miners present were then slain by
Morbius
--Vampire Tales#10d

Reverend Sun Myung Moon, founder of the
Unification Church and inspiration for Rev. Yuc

Colonel Kim,
Mr. Soon, & Reverend Moon Teck-Yo
were all agents of the Korean CIA, who worked with Whittaker and
Global Security INC in fighting communism in the USA, but
regarded as equally important the war against the international
drug trade. They were unaware of Whittaker's drug deals to fund
Global Security INC.

Apparent military leader of the organization,
he informed Whittaker of the location of Moldinaro and was
furious when his organization hit the wrong house. He challenged
Whittaker to combat and was easily battered senseless.

A subordinate to both Kim
and Teck-Yo, he was also a skilled interrogator. He was sent to
learn the Punisher's true origins and motivations. He put a
plastic bag over the Punisher's head, used a rubber band to hold
it tight to his neck, and injected a pool of urine into the bag.
He allowed Castle to nearly asphyxiate on noxious fumes several
times before Castle seemingly caved. Castle revealed Whittaker's
drug deals and tricked Soon into releasing him when he claimed to
be a member of the DEA. As soon as he was freed, Castle broke
Soon's neck.